Feasibility study on the use of CMOS sensors as detectors in radioguided surgery with β
| Autor: | A. Capotosti, C. Mancini Terracciano, Maurizio Biasini, Francesco Collamati, R. Mirabelli, Franco Meddi, M. Ionica, V. Bocci, M. Marafini, R. Amoruso, Pisana Placidi, L. Alunni Solestizi, E. Solfaroli Camillocci, L. Servoli, S. Morganti, C. Campeggi, Andrea Scorzoni, R. Faccini, S. Mantini, K. Kanxheri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
010403 inorganic & nuclear chemistry
01 natural sciences Concentration ratio Signal Imaging phantom Collimated light 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Optics Dimension (vector space) Neoplasms Humans Physics Radiation business.industry Resolution (electron density) Detector CMOS sensors Radioguided surgery − radiation 0104 chemical sciences Beta Particles CMOS Surgery Computer-Assisted Feasibility Studies Radiopharmaceuticals business |
| Zdroj: | Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine. 165 |
| ISSN: | 1872-9800 |
| Popis: | Radioguided surgery (RGS) is a medical practice which thanks to a radiopharmaceutical tracer and a probe allows the surgeon to identify tumor residuals up to a millimetric resolution in real-time. The employment of β − emitters, instead of γ or β + , reduces background from healthy tissues, administered activity to the patient, and medical exposure. In a previous work the possibility of using a CMOS Imager (Aptina MT9V011), initially designed for visible light imaging, to detect β − from 90Y or 90Sr sources has been established. Because of its possible application as counting probe in RGS, the performances of MT9V011 in clinical-like conditions were studied. 1 Through horizontal scans on a collimated 90Sr source of different sizes (1, 3, 5, 7 mm), we have determined relationships between scan fit parameters and the source dimension, namely A quadratic correlation and a linear dependency of, respectively, signal integrated over scan interval, and maximum signal against source diameter, are determined. Horizontal scan measurements on a source, interposing collimators of different size, aim to determine relationships or correlations between scan fit parameters and source dimension. A quadratic correlation and a linear dependency of, respectively, signal integrated over scan interval, and maximum signal against source diameter are determined. In order to get closer to clinical conditions, agar–agar phantoms containing 90 Y with different dimensions and activities were prepared. A 90 Y phantom is characterized by a central spot and a ring all around, for simulating both signal (tumor) and background (surrounding healthy tissue). The relationship found between scan maximum and 90 S r source diameter is then exploited to extract the concentration ratio between spot and external ring of the 90 Y phantom. This observable, defined as the ratio between the tumor and the nearby healthy tissues uptake simulates the Tumor-to-Non-tumor Ratio (TNR). With the aim of evaluating the sensor’s ability to discriminate signal from background relying on the significance parameter, a further 90 Y phantom, featuring a well-known and clinical-like activity will mimic the signal only condition. This result is used to extrapolate to different source sizes, after having estimated the background for various TNR. The obtained significance values suggest that the MT9V011 sensor is capable of distinguishing a signal from an estimated background, depending on the interplay among TNR, acquisition time and tumor diameter. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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